Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest tables, etc." The report of the judges was as follows : "Ingenuity, originality and enterprise are apparent in every item of this exhibit. It combines the results of the tact of the skilful editor with the discrimination and good taste of the successful publisher. It is entitled to honorable mention, as being in some respects one of the most praiseworthy exhibits in this department of the exhibition...
...Columbia School of Political Science, embrace Geography, Political and Constitutional History of Europe and England, and Political Economy-in all, eleven hours work. At the completion of this course, the student is granted the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. This is but little more than is required for honorable mention at Harvard, not taking into consideration that, for this latter honor, distinguished excellence is required. In the second year at Columbia, Roman Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Jurisprudence (in all nine hours a week) are taken up. There two years embrace about the amount required for final honors...
This is the result of the many changes made this year in the arrangement of groups. Some of the changes I will mention. German 3, a course which is a sort of combination of German 5 and 6 of last year, has been transferred from groups X. and XI. to group II. French 5 has been changed from group VII. to II. Spanish 10, in group X. last year, is now placed in group II. Latin 4 (group VIII. last year) is now in group III. Greek 4 is changed from group VI. to V. Latin...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I wish to mention a strange error (for I suppose it to be an error) in the arrangement of groups in the elective pamphlet for next year. I refer to the fact that Greek V. and Latin VII. are in the same group. Greek V. is the second course in Greek composition, and Latin VII. holds the same relative position among the Latin composition courses. It is absolutely necessary for a candidate for final honors in classics to take these two courses, and they both naturally come in the junior year. According to their present arrangement...
...instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together. They have no reward other than the knowledge and training gained, nor, to judge from the results, is other needed...